Cofoco

COFOCO

Overall rating: 7.5/10

Date of visit: August 2011

I have been to Cofoco twice, and both times I was quite happy with the food.

Their concept is fairly simple, but can still cause a bit of frustrations: Choose four dishes from a list for a fixed price, or chose as many dishes as you like a la carte and pay one price per dish (all dishes are the same price). Of course, this is a business, so they usually don’t include all the dishes I want in the four dish menu.

Both times, there were a few misses (for instance the first time the celeriac was extremely salty, and next time the apples and pears in the dessert had no flavour. ), but overall I was very happy with the food – especially considering the price: You pay either 85 kroner per dish or 295 kroner for four dishes from their list. Anybody who have been to top restaurants in Copenhagen know the price level here (usually minimum around €100 + wine for a Michelin star dinner). Due to portion size, three to four dishes seems appropriate. The food is a mix between traditional Danish and modern French, and it’s both creative, elegant, flavourful, well-cooked and nicely presented.

I particularly remember veal with pears being terribly good, and the cod was simply perfectly cooked.

Although the food is not up to the standards of Kokkeriet, AOC, and Herman, it’s definitely a place I would come back to, and I like Cofoco better than the Michelin restaurants Era Ora and Grønbech & Churchill (my reviews are also on here). I was also at the Michelin restaurant Relæ shortly after they opened (around a year and a half before they received their star, so maybe it’s completely different now), and I liked Cofoco a hell of a lot more than Relæ (which was only interesting – not good). Although Cofoco is not quite Michelin star level to me, they deserve a Bib Gourmand.